In September I put up Andrew Hacker's review in NYRB of the Pew “Trends in American Values: 1987-2012: Partisan Polarization Surges in Bush, Obama Years.” It seems to explain what the republicans never understood, particularly with regard … [Read more...]

As many of you know, there are ongoing job actions at Sensata’s Illinois plant by workers who will soon be laid off from their jobs. Sensata is owned in part by Bain Capital, and 170 manufacturing jobs are slated to disappear by year’s end … [Read more...]

hasn't changed much in 75 years. Here is a passage from FDR's 1936 speech to the New York State Democratic Convention:
Let me warn you and let me warn the Nation against the smooth evasion which says, "Of course we believe all these … [Read more...]

Checking the Box
Junior Brown’s famed Grecian locks
Conceal a head full of rocks
While congress stagnates
His campaign obviates
All for the checking of the box.
Things aren’t always as they appear
Like the Senator having a … [Read more...]

(Thank you Barney Frank.) So enough of the bi-partisan malarkey and defend your record to your constituents. The people of Massachusetts don’t much care that you claim to be a little different from the rest of the Republicans; they want to … [Read more...]

The title of Andrew Hacker’s article in this month’s NYRB
asks the question and, it seems, based on history, polls, and policy that he will
not. Hacker reviews “Trends in American Values: 1987-2012: Partisan
Polarization Surges in Bush, … [Read more...]

Today the premier news source within the beltway solicited a lullaby from Scott P. Brown to the millions of small business owners who were just crushed by the news that Obama, and Elizabeth Warren, think they can't even tie their shoes … [Read more...]

You know, when I was old enough to realize that newspapers contained more than wrapped fish, they had stuff like comics, sports and this thing called news, I looked forward to getting them delivered to my house, because they always had new … [Read more...]

By now, most everyone has heard Romney's latest stupid remark:
“I was thinking this morning as I prepared to come into this room of a discussion I had across the country in the United States about my perceptions about differences between … [Read more...]